“This ruling affirms a major victory for consumers, ranchers, organicfarmers, and most conventional farmers across the country,” said Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety. “Roundup Ready Alfalfa represents a very real threat to farmers’ livelihoods and the environment; the court rightly dismissed Monsanto’s claims that their bottom line should come before the rights of the public and America’s farmers. This ruling is a turning point in the regulation of biotech crops in this country.”

Today’s decision again upholds District Court Judge Charles Breyer’s earlier ruling of May 2007, in which he found that the USDA failed to address concerns that Roundup Ready alfalfa will contaminate conventional and organic alfalfa. The Ninth Circuit decision affirms that USDA violated national environmental laws by approving GE alfalfa without a full Environmental Impact Statement.

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Absolutely brilliant news! and why? I am I not!! surprised to read that the USDA was negligent and all too happy to continue to approve whatever Monsanto shoves their way for a rubber stamp.Bad enough that beekeeprs now have to avoid Gm Corn Canola etc- to have alfalfa added to the unsafe crops would really kill whatever industry is left, and that is very little.